14 October 2018 Chamber 5 of Zagazig Felony Court acquitted Ammar Safwat Ali Abdel Halim from charges in case number 2235/2016 South Sharqia. Abdel Halim was accused of illegally protesting and joining a terrorist group. He was already…

Benha’s First Court Has Renewed The Pretrial Detention Of Mahmoud Mohamed Emam For 45 Days Pending Lawsuit 1959/2018.

4 October 2018 State Security Prosecutor extended the detention of the chief editor of Masr Al-Arabia news website Adel Sabry for 15 days pending investigations in case 441/2018 State Security. The prosecutor also scheduled Adel's session…

By: Sara Ramadan, a researcher at Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression Edited by: Mohamed Abd-Alsalam, head of research department Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression condemns The Civil Defense suspension of the…

NGOs call for full repeal of Egypt’s “cybercrime” law and block of dangerous law  regulating media. We, the undersigned,call for the immediate repeal of the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes Law (“The Cybercrime Law”), as well as…

The undersigned organizations condemn the Egyptian government's insistence on cracking down on the freedom of the internet and on tightening its hold on any space for free expression. In this context the president ratified on 18 August the…

View full report in PDFEdited by: Mohamed Nagy Introduction On May 24, 2017, the Egyptian government launched a large-scale Internet monitoring campaign that resulted in the blocking of at least 500 different websites between press sites…

Prepared by: Mahmoud Othman, AFTE lawyer Editor: Mohamed Abdel Salam, director, AFTE research unit Introduction On July 11, 2018, the Official Gazette published a decision by the Prime Minister concerning the organization of…

Background On July 4th, 2018, the Supreme Council for Media Regulation, headed by journalist Makram Mohamed Ahmed, issued a gag order on publication and broadcasting concerning Egypt’s Children’s Cancer Hospital 57375. The Council called on…

11 July 2018 State Security Emergency Criminal Court has sentenced the president of the student union of 10TH Of Ramadan - Higher Technological Institute, Ahmed Mohamed Gaber, known as Rony to one year in prison. Ahmed is charged with…